Quotes About Adversity

las fatigas y el agotamiento espiritual, los pesares y contrariedades que se sienten en todas las situaciones, los cuales corroen perpetuamente el alma: he ahí las pruebas funestas de que la mayor parte de nuestros males son obra nuestra

I found that stealing and being beaten went together, and in some way made up a single condition, and that by fulfilling the part of that condition that depended on me, I could leave the care of the other part to my master. From this idea, I set out to steal more calmly than before. I said to myself, What will come of it in the end? I will be beaten. So be it: that's what I am made for

It makes me feel very much what I believe I have said in some work, that remorse sleeps during a prosperous fate and grows sour in adversity

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

La tyrannie de mon maître finit par me rendre insupportable le travail que j'aurais aimé, et par me donner des vices que j'aurais haïs

JIMMY BEST ON HIS BACK TO THE SUCKERPUNCH OF HIS CHILDHOOD FILES

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

But the sorrow and the fear lasted only a few seconds. Everyone was tired of sorrow and fear. Whatever lay ahead, they thought, would probably be better. They were willing to try it.

Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don't help you survive.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.